# Sab Grey

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'''Sab Grey''' (real name: Frederick Prasunitz) is the founder of [Iron Cross](/source/Iron_Cross_(American_band)),<ref name="BlushPetros2001">{{cite book|last1=Blush|first1=Steven|authorlink1=Steven Blush|last2=Petros|first2=George|authorlink2=George Petros|title=American Hardcore: A Tribal History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7AgdUYZ6U0wC&pg=PA165|accessdate=15 April 2011|date=2001-11-01|publisher=[Feral House](/source/Feral_House)|isbn=978-0-922915-71-2|page=165}}</ref> the United States' first [skinhead](/source/skinhead) [hardcore](/source/Hardcore_punk)/[Oi!](/source/Oi!) band. As a teenager, he began to attend hardcore punk concerts in [Washington D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.), where he met [Ian Mackaye](/source/Ian_MacKaye), [Henry Rollins](/source/Henry_Rollins), and others in the burgeoning Washington, D.C. hardcore [subculture](/source/subculture).

In 1980, he founded Iron Cross. The band's name, as well as the skinhead look favored by its members, led to accusations of [fascism](/source/fascism) which Grey has always denied. Iron Cross released a handful of EPs, later released together as the album ''Live For Now,'' on GMM records (GMM174.) Their song "Crucified" became a hardcore classic after being covered by [Agnostic Front](/source/Agnostic_Front).  Other bands who have covered their songs include [Dropkick Murphys](/source/Dropkick_Murphys) (You're A Rebel) and [English Oi!](/source/Oi!) band [The Business](/source/The_Business_(band)) (Crucified.) Weary of the controversy surrounding the band, Grey dismantled it in 1985 and moved to [England](/source/England) in 1986. He later returned to the U.S. to start the rockabilly/ska/punk-influenced [Royal Americans](/source/Royal_Americans_(band)). As of 2006, Grey continued to play with the Royal Americans and occasionally touring with a new lineup of Iron Cross.

Sab Grey lives in [Baltimore, Maryland](/source/Baltimore) and is the author of two novels: ''Skinhead Army'' (2007) and ''Hated and Proud'' (2009), both published by Skinflint Press.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.vice.com/en/article/we-interviewed-sab-grey-from-iron-cross Interview with Sab Grey] by [Vice](/source/Vice_(magazine)) magazine.
* [http://m.myspace.com/home.wap?bfd=webnext&isredirected=true#friends.list/profile/5771007 Royal Americans] [MySpace](/source/Myspace) page.

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